[R] replacing NA's with 0 in a dataframe for specified columns

[David Kane]

I know that there must be a cool way of doing this, but I can't think
of it. Let's say I have an dataframe with NA's.

> x <- data.frame(a = c(0,1,2,NA), b = c(0,NA,1,2), c = c(NA, 0, 1, 2))
> x
   a  b  c
1  0  0 NA
2  1 NA  0
3  2  1  1
4 NA  2  2
> 

I know it is easy to replace all the NA's with zeroes.

> x[is.na(x)] <- 0
> x
  a b c
1 0 0 0
2 1 0 0
3 2 1 1
4 0 2 2
> 

But how do I do this for just columns a and c, leaving the NA in
column b alone?

Thanks,

Dave Kane

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